[AusNOG] Domestic Peering WAS: Vocus peering traffic missingfrom PIPE-IX?

[Luke Iggleden]

On 10/11/12 10:01 AM, Bevan Slattery wrote:
> We need to be sub $5 per mbps for transit tooŠ :)
>
> [throws hand grenade in room, shuts door and walks away]
>
> [b]
>

Conroys submarine cable should do that for us.

[ add's a rocket launcher ]



> On 10/11/12 8:55 AM, "Luke Iggleden" <luke+ausnog at sisgroup.com.au> wrote:
>
>> On 9/11/12 3:46 PM, Joshua D'Alton wrote:
>>> If AAPT are offering deals down to the $15/Mbit level I'd think
>>> reliability is probably not a great concern, even if you were a business
>>> grade ISP. Without knowing their exact situation it would make sense
>>> that them charging more for transit probably wouldn't help reliability
>>> as much as people would think. With players like Exetel iiNet and TPG
>>> gathering transit from them, you can be fairly sure that 'transit' is
>>> still domestic for AAPT, more than likely just to another Go4. In other
>>> words, cheap.
>>>
>>> It is certainly needed to help reduce the number of situations where a
>>> provider will sign with someone like NTT for their transit, terminate it
>>> in Sydney, and let NTT do whatever they want with it after it leaves AU
>>> shores, since by that point it is going to be high-latency regardless.
>>> And for things like Office365 online, latency to SG really doesn't
>>> matter.
>>>
>>
>> While I'm sure $15/Mbit is out there for some commit levels, it's far
>>from $1/Mbit that he.net offers for the first Gbit/s in the USA.
>>
>> If we want to be serious about making our hosted services (and
>> datacentres!) competitive both domestically & internationally we need to
>> be seeing sub $2/Mbit for state level peering.
>>